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The authors apologise for an error in the presentation of the affiliations of the authors of this published paper. The correct details are:

Hui Wang^1,2*, Chao Chen^3*, Jun Li⁴, Xiaoxi Yang⁵, Hui Zhang^1,6, Zhiqiang Wang^1,7

¹Graduate School, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China

²The department of Hand Surgery, The Second Hospital of Tangshan, Tangshan, Hebei, PR China

³The department of Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China

⁴The emergency department, The Second Hospital of Tangshan, Tangshan, Hebei, PR China

⁵The department of traditional Chinese Medicine, College of traditional Chinese Medicine, North China University of Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, PR China

⁶The department of Joint Surgery, The Second Hospital of Tangshan, Tangshan, Hebei, PR China

⁷The department of Orthopaedics, Affiliated Hospital, North China University of Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, 063000, PR China

*Hui Wang and Chao Chen contributed equally to this work.